What the natives thought as they watched some strange white man babbling away in a foreign language is anyone guess or King George III's reaction when he was told he was now the owner of a land half a world and two years sailing away and which most travellers would die of scurvy before getting to but Britain did find a use for it, sending all it's criminals there.
For a nation where all of the wildlife is trying to kill you, Australia hasn't done bad for itself and we do have a bit of fun with the inventors of a bent stick that you can never throw away and i am sure that Australian migrants who make the move in the opposite direction also complain, they complain about everything else so it would be a shock if they never, but credit where it's due, they have a dark history but have a National Day to say sorry for it.
National Sorry Day, or the National Day of Healing, is an annual event that has been held in Australia to commemorate the 70 years of mistreatment of the country's Indigenous people where the Aboriginal children were separated from their families, with the intention of assimilating them into white Australian culture.
This resulted in what became known as the 'Stolen Generations' and the Government offered 'deep and sincere regret that Indigenous Australians suffered injustices under the practices of past generations, and for the hurt and trauma that many Indigenous people continue to feel as a consequence of those practices'.
There are many other nations who should apologise for the injustices they performed on their own and other people but Australia is the only nation that i know of who have been big enough to admit them and apologise for them so even though it doesn't excuse their awful actions, credit where it is due and Australia deserve all the credit for this gesture
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